Need some quick advice..severe towel scratches...

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Need some advice...got a repainted black porches. Doing a two step on the paint, getting the cut fine...but for the life of me I cannot get the final polish off or sealant off without inducing some serious towel scratches. Tried new towels I have that are meant yo remove wax and anything I can think of...but no way can I remove the polish or sealant without towel scratches. Tried spraying eraser or v7 on it too help lift it...does nothing. Anyone ran into problems like this? Posting from my phone so its hard too do long post.
 
TOGWT said:
As much as I dislike answering questions with questions-



Are the towels new, did you wash them before use?



How are you washing your towels?



See article "Towel Cleaning and Care" - http://www.autopia.org/forum/guide-detailing/136494-towel-cleaning-care.html#post1447725
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Tried new towels and washed towels. My washed towels I wash only my waxing and buffing towels together with CG Microfiber Wash. Never ran into towel scratches before with my towels.



Dan said:
Do you have any ONR to try? What brand towels?
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I have ONR but after trying V7 and Eraser I do not see how that will help. Any special method to use it in? The towels I am using for buffing off the polish and wax are the DI White Plush towels and the blue buffing towels. On my phone so cannot exactly link the towels.
 
Noting that I'm probably the last guy to ask about stupid-soft paint.....



MachNU- What about washing the car to remove the polish, drying with a touchless method, and then using a wipe-on-walk-away LSP?
 
Accumulator said:
Noting that I'm probably the last guy to ask about stupid-soft paint.....



MachNU- What about washing the car to remove the polish, drying with a touchless method, and then using a wipe-on-walk-away LSP?
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We'll the best method I have come up with, with leaving the lowest amount of induced scratches is washing the sealant off. Basically doing a foam wash then removing it with my sheepskin wash mitt and using my air line to blow the water off. Still induces scratches...but after the mass correction I got...its leaving it around d 85%to correction which is the best I can get. It sucks that this thing was repainted with the softest clear I have ever seen.
 
I have been dealing with the same issue on a repainted black Porsche 993 recently. I ended up doing a finish polish with a Meguiar's microfiber finishing pad with their finishing wax on a d.a. This product wipes off very easily, and still leaves a hint of protection behind, so it ended up being the only possible way to get close to the results I was looking for.





John
 
MachNU said:
I have ONR but after trying V7 and Eraser I do not see how that will help. Any special method to use it in? The towels I am using for buffing off the polish and wax are the DI White Plush towels and the blue buffing towels. On my phone so cannot exactly link the towels.
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You can use a whole lot more ONR and "presoak" the surface. ONR also cuts through polish much better than a QD.
 
I settled with that method. Presoaking a panel that had the sealant sitting g on it with ONR then washed it off. Got the sealant off and only left a low amount of scratches. About the best I can get it. After beating my head against a wall for the last four hours, I can't think of anythjng else.
 
MachNU said:
I settled with that method. Presoaking a panel that had the sealant sitting g on it with ONR then washed it off. Got the sealant off and only left a low amount of scratches. About the best I can get it. After beating my head against a wall for the last four hours, I can't think of anythjng else.
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Sometimes thats as good as you can get on silly soft paint... it sucks.
 
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